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Reagan Makes the Right Decision

Two years ago, 8-year-old Reagan Ingordo purchased a weanling daughter of Unified for $25,000 at the Keeneland November sale. The filly rewarded her young buyer when winning her career debut at Fair Grounds Sunday, but Reagan wasn't the only winner when Reagan's Decision (Unified) crossed the wire first in New Orleans. Before the race, trainer (and stepmom) Cherie DeVaux tweeted out that any purse earnings from the race would be donated to relief efforts following the devastating tornadoes in Western Kentucky.

Visiting Reagan's Decision on the Fair Grounds backstretch Monday morning, Reagan explained why she was donating to the recovery efforts.

“We wanted to give back to the people who lost their homes,” she explained. “It's good to help community. We might all need help some day.”

Reagan is the daughter of David Ingordo and, when asked what she liked about Reagan's Decision as a weanling, she sounded much like her bloodstock agent dad.

“She was very balanced and very athletic,” Reagan explained. Before the sparkling 10-year-old came out and she added with a laugh, “And she was cute.”

Asked what advice her father gave her when shopping at the sales, Reagan said, “He taught me to make sure they have good feet and good parents.”

Reagan's Decision was a lightly regarded 18-1 longshot when she went to the post at Fair Grounds Sunday, but her owner had plenty of confidence in the juvenile filly.

“She was training really well into the race, so I thought she would win,” Reagan said. “And also because she's fast.”

Reagan's Decision proved to be not only fast, but also scrappy as she struggled to find racing room down the stretch before tipping out to the center of the course and closing stoutly to just get her head in front on the wire (video).

Reagan admitted to some nerves as her filly weaved through traffic, but ultimately, “I was really happy and excited,” she said.

Reagan reported Reagan's Decision looked to be in fine shape Monday morning.

“She looks good this morning,” Reagan said. “She will go in an allowance race next.”

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Sunday’s Insights: Half To Beach Patrol Debuts

3rd-FG, $40k, Msw, 2yo, 5 1/2fT, 3:01 p.m.
Tom Amoss unveils the latest racing age addition to the Bertie family with pricey BARONNE (Into Mischief) taking to the starting gate in a turf sprint. Out of Bashful Bertie (Quiet American), herself a half to MGSW Hurricane Bertie (Storm Boot) and a full to graded-stakes winner/producer Allamerican Bertie, the colt brought $200,000 at last year's Keeneland September sale from agent AI Pike. A year later, as a 2-year-old going through the Fasig-Tipton Timonium sale (:10 1/5), he RNA'd for $420,000 from the Pike Racing consignment, and was kept to race for said consignor in partnership with Mark Toothaker and Greg Tramontin. The colt's other claim to fame is as a half to multi-millionaire, GISW Beach Patrol (Lemon Drop Kid). This is the family of MGSWs Sun King (Charismatic) and Ocean Drive (Belong to Me). TJCIS PPs

GI WINNER MUSHKA REPRESENTED BY GHOSTZAPPER FILLY
5th-FG, $40k, Msw, 2yo, f, 1m1/16T, 3:56 p.m.
The GI Juddmonte Spinster S. winner Mushka (Empire Maker) will see her fifth expensive foal named WHENTHEDAWNBREAKS make a career debut against a full field of maidens going long on the turf. A $370,000 Keeneland September yearling last year, the bulk of this Brad Cox trainee's works have been over the synthetic at Turfway Park, and at a five-furlong breeze. Mushka changed hands several times over the years for big numbers: $1.6 million as a 2006 Saratoga yearling from Zayat Stables, $2.4 million from Brushwood Stables in 2008 during Keeneland November, and $650,000 from SF Bloodstock and Newgate Farm at the 2016 Keeneland November sale. Her progeny sold just as well as yearlings, include Heyaarat (Empire Maker) for $1.65 million from the Shadwell Estate at 2012 Keeneland September, and Crowned (Bernardini) for $1.2 million going the way of John Ferguson at 2014 Keeneland September. Ifurhappynuknowit ( Bernardini) sold last year at Keeneland November for $320,000 to Repole Stables, and Follow the Flag (Tapit) went the way of Skara Glen Stables for $675,000 at 2017 Keeneland November. TJCIS PPs

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Epicenter, With Familiar Connections, Impressive Gun Runner Winner

Racing for the same trainer and owner that campaigned Gun Runner to a Horse of the Year campaign in 2017, Winchell Thoroughbreds Epicenter, trained by Hall of Famer Steve Asmussen, raced to a 6 1/2-length victory in Sunday's inaugural running of the $100,000 Gun Runner Stakes at Fair Grounds in New Orleans, La.

The Gun Runner is an official qualifying points race for the Kentucky Derby, awarding 10-4-2-1 to the top four finishers. The race is named after Gun Runner, who first came to prominence at Fair Grounds, where he won the Grade 2 Risen Star Stakes and G2 Louisiana Derby in 2016. While he finished third in the G1 Kentucky Derby, Gun Runner would race consistently throughout his 3-year-old season and was nearly perfect at 4 and 5, winning six of his seven final career starts, including the G1 Breeders' Cup Classic and G1 Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes. As a sire, Gun Runner has gotten off to an historic start in 2021, setting a record for progeny earnings from his first crop of foals.

Epicenter, the 5-2 second choice ridden by Brian Hernandez Jr., paid $7.80 for the win after covering 1 1/16 miles on a fast track in 1:44.19. Tejano Twist finished second, with Surfer Dude third in the field of seven 2-year-olds. Rocket Dawg, the 4-5 favorite from the barn of Brad Cox, was never a factor, after being unsettled and rank in the early portion of the race.

A son of Not This Time out of Silent Candy, by Candy Ride, Epicenter was winning for the second time in three starts. He ran sixth in his debut at Churchill Downs last September, then broke his maiden by 3 1/2 lengths at the Louisville, Ky., track next out on Nov. 13.

In the Gun Runner, Epicenter sat just off the early pace behind Surfer Dude, who set fractions of :24.41, :47.76 and 1:12.57 for the first six furlongs. Epicenter took command in the stretch, passing the mile marker in 1:37.63 and drew off in the final sixteenth of a mile.

Epicenter was bred in Kentucky by Westwind Farms and was purchased as a yearling for $260,000.

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Not This Time Filly Remains Undefeated in Untapable S.

A four-length winner at Indiana Grand Sept. 27, North County added a Keeneland allowance in a sloppy off-turfer Oct. 30. Second choice Sunday afternoon at 7-2, the Shadow Pond Stable-bred rated in a three-deep third into the first turn in the wake of a dawdling pace. The tempo quickened as noses pointed toward home and North County was shaken up leaving the bend. It took most of the stretch, but she clawed past Fannie and Freddie in the final few jumps to remain undefeated and collect a first black-type rosette.
She has a weanling filly by Sharp Azteca, while her Listed Bowerie S.-winning dam went to Spun to Run for 2022. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.

UNTAPABLE S., $97,000, Fair Grounds, 12-26, 2yo, f, 1m 70y, 1:43.17, ft.
1–NORTH COUNTY, 122, f, 2, by Not This Time
                1st Dam: Northern Netti (SW, $146,212), by City Zip
                2nd Dam: Run With Netti, by Star Gallant
                3rd Dam: Run With Style, by Run Dusty Run
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. ($45,000 Ylg '20 FTKOCT; €121,800 2yo
'21 ARQDEA). O-Rebecca Hillen, Stonecrest Farm & Bruno
De Julio; B-Shadow Pond Stable (KY); T-Brendan P. Walsh;
J-Adam Beschizza. $60,000. Lifetime Record: 3-3-0-0,
$132,000.
2–Fannie and Freddie, 122, f, 2, Malibu Moon–Connie and
Michael, by Roman Ruler. 1ST BLACK TYPE. ($150,000 Ylg '20
KEESEP). O-Columbine Stable LLC.; B-Betz/J.Betz/Burns/
Camaquiki/C.Kidder/et al (KY); T-Albert M. Stall, Jr. $20,000.
3–Cocktail Moments, 122, f, 2, Uncle Mo–River Maid, by
Where's the Ring. 1ST BLACK TYPE. ($135,000 Wlg '19
KEENOV; $190,000 Ylg '20 KEESEP; $245,000 RNA 2yo '21
OBSMAR). O-Dixiana Farms LLC; B-Mark Stansell (KY);
T-Kenneth G. McPeek. $10,000.
Margins: NK, 1 3/4, 1HF. Odds: 3.90, 8.00, 0.60.
Also Ran: Shotgun Hottie, Feeling Happy, California Angel. Scratched: Alittleloveandluck, Implosion.

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